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1 при смерти
1) General subject: alamort (находящийся), at death's door, at deaths door, at the point of death, sick nigh hand into death, sick nigh into death, close to death2) Religion: amort (Being at the point of death), in extremis (Latin for "in extreme circumstances", at the point of death)3) Australian slang: (некто) one's number is up -
2 песок сыплется
( из кого)разг., пренебр., шутл.cf. be too long (old) in the tooth; with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel; gone to seed; on the shelf- Ведь он должен же быть и крепок, потому что при нём живёт и ключница? - Какая крепость! Песок сыплется, ваше превосходительство! (Н. Гоголь, Мёртвые души) — 'He must be pretty sturdy, at that, if he has a housekeeper staying on with him?' 'I wouldn't call it sturdiness! He's too old in his tooth, Your Excellency!'
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